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Officers with the Campbell County Sheriff’s Department kept busy making drug related arrests last week.

On Dec. 11 Deputy Brian Nelson was dispatched to Melvin Hollow Road in the Stinking area to investigate reports of a suspicious person on private property. Nelson allegedly found Robert C. Birgholtz, 29, of 139 Brennan Lane, asleep just off the roadway. Upon contact with Birgholtz, Nelson reported smelling a strong odor of marijuana. A pipe with what Nelson believed to be marijuana residue was also found in Birgholtz possession, records indicate.

For more than two years Darrell Mongar's suit against the city of LaFollette has waded through the necessary legal channels. But on Monday evening, despite Councilman Hansford Hatmaker's best efforts to put off a vote his colleagues said yes to a resolution.

In September 2009 David Dunaway filed a $100,000 lawsuit in circuit court on Mongar's behalf. The filing alleged the LaFollette City Council passed on hiring him for a position with the LaFollette Police Department based on his age and handicap.

Monday’s commission meeting marked the last of 2011. But when the group reconvenes in the new year they will be facing an old issue.

When third district Commissioner Melvin Boshears announced in the November meeting he would be vacating his seat effective Dec. 1 it sparked a winding debate among the remaining commissioners about how the veteran commissioner would be replaced.

A dog accused of attacking an 8 year old girl was given a death sentence. Circuit Court Judge John McAffee ruled the female pit bull constituted a danger to the community. The dog bit the child in the face requiring 16 stitches.

The Caryville Board of Mayor and Aldermen hammered out the details of a new liquor ordinance. Liquor by the drink and package stores passed in the November 2010 election.